BOXING DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 955, 27 December 1933, Page 1

BOXING DAY.

Australia Experiences Storms and Sunshine. MANY CAMPERS WASHED OUT. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 27, noon.) SYDNEY, December 27. Beautiful weather was experienced in Sydney on Boxing Day, and it is estimated that 150,000 spent the day at the beaches. Melbourne, too, experienced good weather, but more than fifty homes at Kensington are still surrounded by an evil-smelling sea of silt aand debris which was left by the flood on Christmas night. Hundreds of people spent Boxing Day shovelling mud out of their homes. Rows of houses are expected to be untenable for weeks. Brisbane holiday-makers experienced a tropical disturbance. Campers on the beach were washed out, nearly seven inches of rain falling along the coast. Small floods occurred in some places. Ascot racecourse was flooded, and the races were postponed. A thunderstorm in Snowtown, 90 miles north of Adelaide, resulted in three inches of rain in an hour. Hailstones as big as moth balls also fell. A railway dam overflowed, and houses were inundated. A washout which occurred on the railway line delayed trains. A flood of water about a mile wide descended on the township of Caltowie from adjacent hills, and swamped many homes anl business places. Streets and some houses were flooded in Mallala, which also experienced a storm.